Throughout Not Your Muse, Celeste makes claims that might prove otherwise: she cares for past and future lovers, the thrill of the chase, and stellar big band arrangements. Please don’t mistake me for somebody who cares, she snarks with a sweet affect. We come to understand ourselves in a new way through the representations of ourselves that we create to be consumed. Whatever the reason, Celeste doesn’t seem to mind. And not just louder, but grander, wilder, more complex and generally crazier. Where could they possibly go next The answer is, a Spinal tap-esque, one louder. The sense of self that emerges from media accounting is not the purely statistics-driven “quantified self,” but the more well-rounded qualified self. With many artists a new album brings a bold new sound, but this is Muse, a band who’ve shot for the stars since day one, now on album number 5. Humphreys calls this chronicling, in both digital and nondigital forms, media accounting. Muse themselves never stopped being teenagers, happiest whipping up us-versus-them screeds and. Pocket diaries were as mobile as smartphones, allowing the diarist to record life in real time. The album’s cult has endured not so much by converting new fans as by presenting a pungent memory box. Diaries, Humphreys explains, were often written to be shared with family and friends. Sure there are some cool riffs and vocal lines, but this just feels like Muse without the stuff that makes them Muse. Humphreys refers to diaries in which eighteenth-century daily life is documented with the brevity and precision of a tweet, and cites a nineteenth-century travel diary in which a young woman complains that her breakfast didn't agree with her. This isn’t Muse’s worst album, but this is easily their most uninteresting and overrated album, at least within the fandom. The ability to take selfies has not turned us into needy narcissists it's part of a longer story about how people account for everyday life. Pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books are the predigital precursors of today's digital and mobile platforms for posting text and images. People have used media to catalog and share their lives for several centuries. She shows that sharing the mundane details of our lives-what we ate for lunch, where we went on vacation, who dropped in for a visit-didn't begin with mobile devices and social media. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view. Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.
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